Zoomy's thing

There's more scientific analysis of my brain here ! Or if not my brain (because they probably couldn't find anything there), at leas...

I think we all need to give a round of applause to Paul Bastock, long-time star player of Boston Utd, who's just played his record-break...

It's officially Christmas, because I heard my first Christmas song playing in a shop today. Well, if you don't count the eccentric m...

Competitors from far and wide converged on the Licensed Victuallers' School in Ascot, where rather than being taught to be licensed vict...

Putting the clocks back is the signal that I'll have to dig out my bike lights and resign myself to the miserable situation of spending ...

Having the next week off work with nothing specific I need to do in that time, I'm at liberty to book myself into a relatively inexpensi...

To get rid of some of those vouchers people keep giving me (I also got thirty pounds' worth from Eon electricity for some reason or othe...

I've got next week off work, which I'll maybe even use productively in preparation for the UK Memory League Championship in Ascot on...

I've never seen a pigeon run, but despite this, I've got that song in my head somehow. Wikipedia describes it as "The subject o...

Does anybody out there remember when Thundercats Ho - The Movie came out on video in Britain? It's entirely irrelevant trivia, but it wo...

And I'm finding it very difficult to keep myself from buying an expensive one. Credit cards are tempting things when they've got tho...

I do wish they wouldn't give names to the piddling little storms we get in this country. It makes us look like we're trying to be as...

It's the European Memory Championship in Toledo, Spain, this weekend, and I nearly let that happen without writing a blog entry entitled...

I see our old friend AlphaGo is in the news again - or rather, a new improved version of it where they essentially just told it the rules of...

Having posted whining blog entries for the last two days about being unwell, I can't not post anything today, or you'll all assume I...

I made a definite resolution to blog something interesting on a daily basis, but I'm still unwell. So I'll stick to the letter rathe...

Clearly I've turned into an old man, because I can't even remember the last time I had a proper cold like this. But I feel really ho...

Nick "The Greek" Papadopoulos, who in recent years has become my indispensable arbiter-in-chief at memory competitions I run, aske...

You know how Marvel comics keep trawling through their old characters to see who'd make a new money-generating movie, and then they re-l...

I've developed a sort of resigned attitude to birthdays now. And saying "I'm forty" always sounds like a vague approximati...